REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., April 25 /PRNewswire/ --
(http://www.oracle.com/tellmemore/?676101) Numerous recent reports by leading
industry analyst firms help confirm that Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the largest
provider of software for e-business, fulfills the increasingly critical need
for faster, more reliable Internet applications with its Oracle9i Application
Server (Oracle9iAS). Analysts at Aberdeen, AMR, Hurwitz Group and Illuminata
tout Oracle's built-in caching technology for its performance improvements,
cost-savings, simplicity and versatility, highlighting that Oracle9iAS helps
to reduce integration costs and deployment complexity while providing
unprecedented performance gains. Unlike BEA and IBM, Oracle9iAS features
built-in data and dynamic Web caching.
Helping to Avoid Complexity
Because the caching technology is integrated into Oracle9iAS, companies
can avoid the complexity and cost of systems integration and customization and
thereby reduce total cost of ownership (TCO). In a recent research report,
Aberdeen cited Oracle9i's potential benefits for server-side digital content
acceleration: "The fact that Oracle's [caching] solution is already
integrated with its application server means that it needs little of the
customization work required by other solutions."
Benefiting the Bottom Line
In a February 2001 report titled, "The Changing Role of the App Server,"
AMR research analyst Peter Urban identifies the importance of high-performing
Web applications. Urban contends that "even [robust Web applications] will
lose business unless the applications are consistently fast." Rather than
purchasing costly hardware, he stresses the need for application server
software to improve site speed. Urban notes Oracle's addition of Web and
database caching to Oracle9iAS as evidence of a performance and cost-saving
strategy for IT departments. He explains, "Caching benefits the bottom line:
because software runs more efficiently, it reduces the need for a lot of
hardware."
Hurwitz Group further addresses how Oracle's integrated caching technology
helps reduce IT costs in a December 2000 report titled, "You Want to Be a
Millionaire? Oracle Supplies the Cache." Evan Quinn, Chief Analyst at
Hurwitz Group, states, "With bottom lines under close scrutiny, the time for a
free lunch and unlimited spending is over: Companies need to find effective
methods for keeping costs associated with Web site development and maintenance
in check. Because caching software can run on less expensive hardware, it
provides a low cost way to increase capacity."
Increased Site Performance
Aberdeen spotlights the ability of Oracle9iAS to cache both static and
dynamic content, summarizing the benefits of this approach as: "built-in load
balancing and surge protection, improved fault tolerance through fail-over
mechanisms, accelerated query resolution, and reduced processing load on the
database and application server."
One of the major benefits associated with Oracle's dynamic caching
capabilities is its heuristic scheming, which prioritizes page invalidation to
avoid a flood of requests overwhelming the back-end servers. Because most Web
sites and Internet applications are now dynamically generated, invalidation
prioritization -- which allows administrators to queue content changes to a
Web site in order of importance -- is critical to e-businesses, yet uncommon
among today's caching offerings. Analyst firm Illuminata further underscores
the need for heuristic scheming, stating that the load imposed by making even
seemingly minor changes, such as background color, to a Web site, can
negatively affect performance. "The target is improving site traffic, and
perhaps more importantly, sales," says Illuminata analyst James Governor.
"Making such a change can be risky in terms of performance and response times.
With Oracle9i however, risk is taken out of the equation."
"These recent reports demonstrate that the analyst community continues to
recognize and confirm the strength of our caching technology and the value of
our approach in this crucial area," said Rene Bonvanie, Vice President,
Oracle9i Marketing. "We take this wealth of third-party validation as further
proof that Oracle's broader vision of reducing IT complexity and increasing
e-business performance through simple software is right on target."
About Oracle
Oracle Corporation provides the software that powers the Internet. For
more information about Oracle, please call 650-506-7000.
Trademarks
Oracle is a registered trademark and Oracle9i is a registered trademark or
trademark of Oracle Corporation.
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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., April 25 /PRNewswire/ --
(http://www.oracle.com/tellmemore/?676101) Numerous recent reports by leading
industry analyst firms help confirm that Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the largest
provider of software for e-business, fulfills the increasingly critical need
for faster, more reliable Internet applications with its Oracle9i Application
Server (Oracle9iAS). Analysts at Aberdeen, AMR, Hurwitz Group and Illuminata
tout Oracle's built-in caching technology for its performance improvements,
cost-savings, simplicity and versatility, highlighting that Oracle9iAS helps
to reduce integration costs and deployment complexity while providing
unprecedented performance gains. Unlike BEA and IBM, Oracle9iAS features
built-in data and dynamic Web caching.
Helping to Avoid Complexity
Because the caching technology is integrated into Oracle9iAS, companies
can avoid the complexity and cost of systems integration and customization and
thereby reduce total cost of ownership (TCO). In a recent research report,
Aberdeen cited Oracle9i's potential benefits for server-side digital content
acceleration: "The fact that Oracle's [caching] solution is already
integrated with its application server means that it needs little of the
customization work required by other solutions."
Benefiting the Bottom Line
In a February 2001 report titled, "The Changing Role of the App Server,"
AMR research analyst Peter Urban identifies the importance of high-performing
Web applications. Urban contends that "even [robust Web applications] will
lose business unless the applications are consistently fast." Rather than
purchasing costly hardware, he stresses the need for application server
software to improve site speed. Urban notes Oracle's addition of Web and
database caching to Oracle9iAS as evidence of a performance and cost-saving
strategy for IT departments. He explains, "Caching benefits the bottom line:
because software runs more efficiently, it reduces the need for a lot of
hardware."
Hurwitz Group further addresses how Oracle's integrated caching technology
helps reduce IT costs in a December 2000 report titled, "You Want to Be a
Millionaire? Oracle Supplies the Cache." Evan Quinn, Chief Analyst at
Hurwitz Group, states, "With bottom lines under close scrutiny, the time for a
free lunch and unlimited spending is over: Companies need to find effective
methods for keeping costs associated with Web site development and maintenance
in check. Because caching software can run on less expensive hardware, it
provides a low cost way to increase capacity."
Increased Site Performance
Aberdeen spotlights the ability of Oracle9iAS to cache both static and
dynamic content, summarizing the benefits of this approach as: "built-in load
balancing and surge protection, improved fault tolerance through fail-over
mechanisms, accelerated query resolution, and reduced processing load on the
database and application server."
One of the major benefits associated with Oracle's dynamic caching
capabilities is its heuristic scheming, which prioritizes page invalidation to
avoid a flood of requests overwhelming the back-end servers. Because most Web
sites and Internet applications are now dynamically generated, invalidation
prioritization -- which allows administrators to queue content changes to a
Web site in order of importance -- is critical to e-businesses, yet uncommon
among today's caching offerings. Analyst firm Illuminata further underscores
the need for heuristic scheming, stating that the load imposed by making even
seemingly minor changes, such as background color, to a Web site, can
negatively affect performance. "The target is improving site traffic, and
perhaps more importantly, sales," says Illuminata analyst James Governor.
"Making such a change can be risky in terms of performance and response times.
With Oracle9i however, risk is taken out of the equation."
"These recent reports demonstrate that the analyst community continues to
recognize and confirm the strength of our caching technology and the value of
our approach in this crucial area," said Rene Bonvanie, Vice President,
Oracle9i Marketing. "We take this wealth of third-party validation as further
proof that Oracle's broader vision of reducing IT complexity and increasing
e-business performance through simple software is right on target."
About Oracle
Oracle Corporation provides the software that powers the Internet. For
more information about Oracle, please call 650-506-7000.
Trademarks
Oracle is a registered trademark and Oracle9i is a registered trademark or
trademark of Oracle Corporation.
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